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Business Spectator, Eureka Report for sale: the leaked profit figures

Leaked information from the information memorandum issued as part of the Business Spectator and Eureka Report sale process reveals profitability has gone backwards.

Kohler quits CEO gig to focus on journalism

Business Spectator and Eureka Report figurehead Alan Kohler has stepped aside as CEO of the two websites to focus on journalism and strategy, as the company hires new blood to expand and entrench its band of popular publications.

We’re not selling to Fairfax: Kohler

Business Spectator and Eureka Report chief Alan Kohler has scotched rumours that his business is about to be sold to Fairfax Media.

Schwab: Gottliebsen got it wrong on bank executives

Perhaps Business Spectator’s legendary columnist Robert Gottliebsen isn’t reading Steve Keen’s columns (or these ones) particularly closely. If he did, he probably wouldn’t be blaming the bankers’ communication skills for their current public relations foibles.

Kohler: and the survey shows … Labor’s growing labour crisis

There’s been a dramatic shift in sentiment among Australia’s chief executives that puts what’s going on in Canberra today into sharp relief. Skills shortages have come back into sharp focus.

Media briefs: Fairfax rules the airwaves … The Fin soars like Eagles

MTR has its work cut out for it, since it’s already slipped in ratings. Plus, Business Spectator’s new thespian, Nine cuts down Telstra and other media news of the day.

Kohler: Don’t flatter yourself, AFR

Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler responds to claims the site is plagiarising from the Fin Review by publishing article extracts: we aren’t, he says, and no-one’s reading them, anyway.

Don Argus and his journo mates club

Crikey founder Stephen Mayne cuts the heart of outgoing BHP-Billiton’s chairman Don Argus’ sycophantic relationship with Melbourne’s business columnists.

Shorting ban causes bedlam as Macquarie recovers again

The remarkable decision by ASIC yesterday to ban all short-selling for 30 days caused a delay in the opening of trade this morning as investors scrambled to work out what it all meant, writes Stephen Mayne.